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October 9, 2012

What is your favorite book to moive adaptation?

That's a toughie... Atonement, perhaps.

What is your favorite book genre / type of book to read?

I always say I like to read 'smart fiction.' Lately I've been keeping up with well-reviewed, recently released popular fiction, but I was an English major in college so sometimes I'll read (or reread) a classic twentieth century novel.

Why did you decide to join a bookclub?

Whenever I finish I book, I wish I had someone to talk about it with! I also love meeting new people and enjoy spending time with smart, booky people.

Are you a Miami/Florida native or new to town? If you are new, what made you move here?

New to town. Moved to the Coral Gables area from Cleveland, Ohio last August. My boyfriend was placed here through the Teach for America program and we made the move together. He teaches English at North Miami Sr High and I'm a marketing coordinator for a department at FIU.

We're about:

Think book clubs are for Oprah or old ladies who knit and stockpile hard candies, not for moderm women like you and your friends? Not so fast! This is a book club for die-hard bookworms; women who love to relax, sit back and enjoy the company of a good book.

Who should join? Women ages 20-?, married or single, parenting or childless. The only requirement is an avid interest in books and a desire to meet like-minded women in a laid back environment.

We have two book discussion meetings per month: one in the South (Coconut Grove/Coral Gables) the 3rd Wednesday at 7:00p.m. and one in the North (Mimo Historic District/Upper East Side) the first Saturday at 1:00p.m. We also meet of every few weeks for a casual get-together. Book choices are almost always fiction, classics, every once in a while non-fiction and all choices are determined by voting of club members four times a year..

Please email us with any questions. We look forward to meeting you all soon!

January - Little Bee by Chris Cleave (NORTH) February - Crossing to Safety” by Wallace Stegner (SOUTH) / The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skoot (NORTH) March - Behind the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo (SOUTH) / A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (NORTH) April - The Light between Oceans by Mil Stedman (SOUTH) / The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (NORTH) May - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (SOUTH) / Makeda by Randall Robinson (NORTH) June - The 13th Tale by Dianne Setterfield (SOUTH) / Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen (NORTH) July - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (SOUTH) / Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (NORTH) August - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (SOUTH) / Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple (NORTH) September - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (SOUTH) / We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (NORTH) October – The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (SOUTH) / The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern (NORTH)

books read in 2012:

January - Room by Emma Donoghue February - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie March - The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani April - The Last Nude by Ellis Avery May - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (SOUTH) / The Birth House by Ami McKay (NORTH) June - Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (SOUTH) / The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney (NORTH) July - The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi by Elif Shafak (SOUTH) / When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams (NORTH) August - The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer (SOUTH) / The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (NORTH) September - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (SOUTH) / Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (NORTH) October – The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (SOUTH) / The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (NORTH) November - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (SOUTH) / The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (NORTH) December - Give me the World by Leila Hadley (SOUTH) / Life of Pi by Yann Martel (NORTH)